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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston  /  Space

With Carmel Johnston and Alan Duffy

‘You can fake your personality for a couple of weeks, at most ... But over the long term, your true personality will come out.’

Carmel Johnston, an environmental scientist, was the crew commander of NASA’s most recent Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project. As part of this mission, she spent an entire year living with five other scientists…

 
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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston  /  Space

Carmel Johnston, an environmental scientist, was the crew commander of NASA’s most recent Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project. As part of this mission, she spent an entire year living with five other scientists in an 11-metre-wide geodesic dome on the Mars-like slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

The focus of the study, which concluded in August last year, was psychological. NASA wanted to learn individual stress reactions and group cohesion in an intensely cramped, isolated environment comparable to life in a space vessel on Mars. The researchers had to wear full space suits any time they left the dome, and resources were painstakingly rationed and recycled.

In conversation with astronomer Alan Duffy, Johnston reveals what she learned about group dynamics, freeze-dried food and social survival in a space dome.

Presented in partnership with WOMADelaide’s Planet Talks Programme.

 
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Does the universe have a memory? Alan Duffy  /  Science & technology

With Alan Duffy

Once a moment has passed, does that mean it is gone forever – or does it exist somewhere else? Astronomer Alan Duffy is an expert on the invisible parts of the Universe. Over a fast-paced half hour (1.581e+21 atoseconds, to be exact), he explores transience, time and the lifespan of an action.

Anything and everything in Space from across our archives.

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Does science fiction give us an unrealistic expectation that we can effectively inhabit Mars? Questions on discovery, imagination and progress  /  Science & technology

With Upulie Divisekera, Cory Doctorow, Sammy J and 1 other

 

Art & us: Art & the universe  /  Space

With Willoh S. Weiland, Christopher Fluke, and Jeff Khan

 
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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston  /  Space

With Carmel Johnston and Alan Duffy

 
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Dava Sobel  /  Space

With Dava Sobel and Robyn Williams

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Promo image for Preaching to the Choir, Refusing to Change and Alien Worlds: Rebellion and Tomorrow

Preaching to the Choir, Refusing to Change and Alien Worlds: Rebellion and Tomorrow  /  Art

By Jo Case

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